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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
development at John Keells Holdings, Sri Lanka’s largest conglomerate with 70 companies across the real estate, food and beverage, financial services, transportation, and leisure sectors. With the infrastructure pieces he’s worked on... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber? By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow service providers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
company were against it. Outside the company were cynical. So you had to fight through all that stuff. And so any initiative like that requires, you know, private innovation... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
large firms often encounter difficulties in formulating and committing changes due to the complexity in firms' activities. Beyond cognitive limitations, perhaps the most intriguing type of failure is when managers fully understand the nature of the required change, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-073.pdf The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
adoption of feed-in tariffs, subsidies, and tax credits in the 1980s. However the poor technological capabilities of U.S.-based firms meant that it was Danish and other foreign companies that benefitted most. Subsequently the combination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Afghanistan’s largest taxpayer and private employer. Starting any sort of company in Afghanistan in that time frame would have been a tall order, but a telecom operation posed a number of special challenges.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
4 Takeaways from HBS
my finance background in real estate private equity, I believed strongly in the power of investing to transform cities and communities. However, I had it drummed into me that the shareholder was the most important stakeholder. In... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
successful navigation of turbulent markets will require a mastery of the core skills of corporate finance. This book focuses on essential valuation methodologies for public and private companies on a... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Professor of Management Practice. Another 20 leading investors and entrepreneurs spoke on panels and in private break-out sessions to round out the conference, which was timed in three-hour blocks over the two days to accommodate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Business School Case 207-090 As part of its expansion and diversification strategy, the Chiaphua Group explored real estate investments in emerging markets. The Group was one of the largest privately held View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting
not limited to venture capital but also expand to goods and service-based businesses. Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting There are excellent resources to help train your managers and employees to confront unconscious bias, and we encourage View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
need more competent CEOs of major companies who will invest wisely to create new valued products and services. Private action can overcome partisan haggling and incompetence. America is a great country,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
inequalities in the public and the private spheres are affected by childhood exposure to non-traditional gender role models at home. We test the association between being raised by an employed mother and adult men's and women's outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
and with the firm's future performance. The results do not support the view that executive and outside directors use their connections to extract rents. Rather the company compensates these individuals for the resources these better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
recently joined with the private company Celera Genomics to announce the cracking of the human genetic code.) Increasing interest in such research has led to complex legal tangles. Patent attorney Brenda... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
journey became the genesis of Saga. Cofounded with Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Saga is a social mobile app that helps families save and share stories in an audio format. Launched in mid-2020, the company currently has six full-time employees... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
valuation of $200 million and debating changes to them that will allow them to grow their business. Ensuring that their marketing dollars were being spent efficiently was critical to the data-driven management team and proving to be complicated as the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
revenue. The shift from public to private priorities in space is especially significant because a widely shared goal among commercial space's leaders is the achievement of a large-scale, mainly self-sufficient, developed space economy.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
(and any associated licensing revenue) to the company and forgoing salary. There is a perception that women entrepreneurs do not invest sufficient start-up capital in their enterprises. If there is any truth to that, the important... View Details